On the day of Alex’s disappearance, Miles discovers that he is left with a text message on his phone, sent to him by Alex at exactly 2.30am the previous night, hours after Miles had turned off his phone and gone to bed.
It reads: ‘Something is happening. We need to talk.’
And now, here Miles is – clueless as to where Alex is and what has happened to him.
It all started with Miles dragging Matt, Jamie and Nick with him to the library at exactly nine o’clock in the morning, believing with all his heart that Alex was going to meet with them there, ready to talk and to plan his escape. However, as it became clear to them that he was either half an hour late or that he wasn’t going to show up at all, Miles had taken out his phone, deciding that phoning Alex was worth the risk.
That was how
